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supplicant
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  • They had resumed their original positions, Ullman behind the desk and Jack in front of it, interviewer and interviewee, supplicant and reluctant patron.†  (source)
  • Eve gave one particularly devout-looking supplicant a few tokens and was rewarded with a beatific smile and a glossy pebble.†  (source)
  • He wanted to use Chacko's visit to impress local supplicants and Party Workers.†  (source)
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  • "Yes of course, Lieutenant," he answered, bowing his head in a most supplicant angle.†  (source)
  • "How many supplicants do we have today?" he inquired.†  (source)
  • Each magician must unbar the path for herself, and the challenge is different for each supplicant.†  (source)
  • There was no naos, so of course no pronaos, no altar, no statues of the gods or of their supplicants.†  (source)
  • Seated, holding his hat in his hands like a supplicant, Kleppmann had managed to make Will Jr crawl.†  (source)
  • Nothing was forgotten, every service requested was provided, and De Roos or the other doctors who made their rounds— specialists in infection, the heart, and Rontgenology-had long technical conversations with Alessandro, thus keeping him far better informed than most of the other supplicants who were drawn daily to the hospital.†  (source)
  • He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.†  (source)
  • We had not come to the meeting as supplicants or petitioners, but as fellow South Africans who merited an equal place at the table.†  (source)
  • Indoors, the supplicant must make use of a prayer stone, and there were several available in the house.†  (source)
  • The one part of the process Eragon enjoyed was watching how the supplicants reacted to the two Urgals who loomed behind Nasuada's chair.†  (source)
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